The Wizard Who Mix Drinks to Survive

"System Downloading…"

'Who's there? What's happening?' Ethan grunted, he tried to open his mouth but he cannot feel anything, he wanted to open his eyes to know what is happening to him but to no avail he cannot move his body parts. His body is so heavy at the moment but he also feels like floating on air, 'What kind of irony is this?'

"55%... 60%... 63%... 70%... 90%... 94%... 97%... 98%... 99%..."

A robotic male voice disturbed Ethan's attempt to move his body. 'That voice, why is it counting?' Despite being confused Ethan has no other choice but to wait, he tried to feel his surrounding hoping to know what is happening and just like before it is futile. He resume on listening at the robotic male voice and what the robotic male announced almost made him open his eyes.

"Buffering… Unstable Connection… Please check your connection to continue downloading…"

'What the fudge! It is 99%! Just one more and it is done! And what on earth is this robotic voice downloading?' Ethan cannot believe what he just heard. He was already determined to wait but it decided to buffer. 'Heck, where did this fellow acquire it's internet?!' He is so frustrated on what's happening to him to the point where he did not notice that his fingers moved a little.

"WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! Connection lost! Preparing to re-download."

Before Ethan can process what's going on, he felt something tugging his consciousness, forcing him to go towards the darkness, he forced to struggle so that he can stay conscious but he was too weak at the moment. 'Am I going to die in the most foolish way just because of a lost connection?' Ethan thought one last time before succumbing to the dark.

"Re-downloading System… 60%... 70%... 80%... 95%... 99%... 100%..."

Oblivious to the unconscious Ethan, the robotic voice appears to have it's internet back and it continued downloading the 'System'.

***

"Man, are you sure we are doing this?" A skinny man holding a shovel asked anxiously at his friend.

"Bro, don't be nervous. This will be the first and the last time we are doing this." The skinny man's friend smiled at him and his golden tooth that situated at the center illuminates as the rays from the flashlight hits it.

"Man, what if the police come? This is illegal, you know that right?" The man with the golden tooth shakes his head helplessly. This friend of his sure is a worry-wart.

"Bro, this is not illegal. Trust me, okay?" The man with the golden tooth made an okay sign towards him as he sets in motion.

"Not illegal! We are digging a grave? What if the family of that grave visits and found out that the grave was dug out? What will we do?" Due to the skinny man's anxiousness, his voice raised up and alarmed the man with the golden tooth. He instantly raise his left hand to cover his friend's mouth as he made a 'shh' hand sign at his right.

"Shh, lower down your voice. If you keep on doing that what you are worrying for will eventually happen. You are such a chicken. The one who told us to dig this grave is one of his family member so we don't need to worry about anything else. We are just going to check if there is a corpse inside."

The skinny man wanted to stop his friend but the man with the golden tooth was starting to dig already, he look at the tombstone, he was curious who is buried on this grave, his friend only told him that they have a job and the pay is high however he did not expect the job to dig a coffin and check if the corpse is still inside. The skinny man put his flashlight towards the tombstone and look at the name carved in it.

"Ethan Cashmore. Cashmore? Isn't that the surname of the famous owners of the Food and Beverage Industry?"

The skinny man was baffled, the Cashmore's business is a giant corporation that controls all the restaurants and all the wineries and bars in the world. And they are the only Cashmore in New York so why would one be buried in this kind of old-fashioned cemetery?

"Just help me dig so that we can finish this. Stop asking questions it will do you no good."

The skinny man looks at the grave and it's almost halfway, his friend sure is talented at digging, he just shakes his head in defeat and started to dig and a sound similar of a rock thrown into a wood wall echoed in their ears. The man with the golden tooth was elated to hear the sound since it only means that it is the coffin.

"Come on, let's take it."

Both men continued to shovel the dirt away and for about three minutes and a brown wooden coffin resurfaced, they lift the coffin and took it out of the grave.

"Pedro, do you know that this is the easiest job I have ever done in my entire life. Hahaha." The man with the golden tooth let out a hearty laugh. For him, digging a grave is the easiest job he had ever encountered for he is risking his life like his old ones. The skinny man which is called Pedro look at the wooden coffin and as he observe it closely he saw that some parts of the brown wooden coffin are starting to decay which means that the person inside the coffin died a long time ago.

"Where is the crowbar? Let's open it." Pedro did not refute any longer, he knows he cannot stop his friend especially that the coffin is already right in front of them, he passes the crowbar and his friend use it to lift the cover however, a robotic male voice reverberates inside the coffin which left them frozen on the spot.

"Installing… System Installed… Would you like to open the system?"

Pedro and the man with the golden tooth look at each other with an owl-like eyes, Pedro wanted to say something but the words are stuck in his throat.

"T-t-t-t…" Pedro pointed at the coffin and continued to say the letter 'T' and for the next second they heard a grunt and Pedro's mind could not hold on and inside his brain where countless of veins resides a particular vein snaps and he fainted on his place. The man with the golden tooth was still holding the crowbar as if his life depended on that rusty metal, he wanted to get away from the coffin but he was so shocked to the point where his body is not listening to him anymore.

'What the heck is this? I thought this was the easiest job but why does it happen to be the most dangerous one I have ever accepted?' The man with the golden tooth's heart bleeds from helplessness, he musters up his courage and force his body to move and he successfully take a step backward but before he can take another one, a sudden surge of warm fluid travels leisurely at his thighs and at the same time a urine like smell wafted at the area.

"Opening System… System will begin to teleport host to it's destination in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1."

The smell was from the man with the golden tooth. When he heard the robotic voice speaks again, due to the helplessness and fear his gall bladder burst open. 'I will never accept this kind of job again! Huhuhu.' The man with the golden tooth can only lament on his mind, he looked at his friend and cannot help but envy him, 'I wish I just fainted like Pedro so that I cannot experience this embarrassing moment.'

The heavens fulfilled the man with the golden tooth's plea as thunder roared in the sky and the wind blows violently and when lightning strikes straight at the coffin, the man with the golden tooth pass out. Followed by the lightning strike is a blue condensed light that descended from the sky towards the coffin and after a minute, a loud boom reverberates in the cemetery.

The thunder stopped roaring, the wind returned to its chilling blows in the middle of the night and lightning was nowhere to be seen and along with the disappearing happenings that happened the coffin was also nowhere to be seen.

"Ugh, w-what happened?" Pedro grunted as he slowly opened his eyes and lift his weight, he scanned the area but he cannot see clearly due to the pitch black night sky and his eyes that is yet to be fully opened. He rubbed his eyes and recall what happened and when his memories of the past minutes flashed in his mind, cold sweats started to form on his forehead.

"Right, Juan! Where is that man?" Pedro stands up picked the flashlight up and began looking for Juan which is the man with the golden tooth, he remembered that before he fainted Juan was still near the coffin, he looks at the spot where the coffin was supposed to be place but there is no coffin but there he saw Juan lying down on the soil. Pedro walk towards Juan but when he was three steps closer to Juan, he scrunched his nose when the smell of urine dances in his nose.

'Man, was Juan so scared that he pisses on his pants? Tsk, tsk, tsk, Now who's the chicken, hmp.' If Juan knows what Pedro is thinking he will surely smack Pedro's head. Pedro shakes his head and approach the unconscious Juan.

"Juan, wake up man." Pedro tap Juan's shoulder but the latter was still unconscious, Pedro tap it with a little bit of force but still no reaction so he decided to use the most effective technique of waking someone up. Pedro raises his right hand and stretch it a distance away from Juan and after securing the targeted place Pedro began to launch and his hand landed right at Juan's cheek and a loud 'Paakk' echoed.

"G-ghost, ghost!" Before Pedro can ask Juan what happen right after he fainted, Juan stood up and run hysterically away from the cemetery while yelling at the top his lungs. It was a good thing that the cemetery is located far from the city.

"Man! Wait for me!" Pedro also left the cemetery, chasing the hysterical Juan not daring to look back at all for fear to witness another vein snapping scenario.

***

"Host has arrived at his first destination." The robotic voice declared as the brown wooden coffin landed vertically at a lush greenery area.